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Showing posts with label lego. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lego. Show all posts

Monday, 19 May 2014

more lego storage

We've had a good old sell up of T's toys in the last few months. He's traded his wooden fire station and truck and all of his tonka and fisher price toys all for the love of lego. We did buy a lego storage head ( $15 on trade me- thank you!) but it's starting to get a bit full and T sometimes finds it difficult to find the piece he's after. Since I know this is something that he'll be keen on for the next few years, we were in need of some more storage.

Our solution was to put wheels on the bottom of an old drawer. After a sand we painted it using left over wall paint and blackboard paint for the front. The wheels came off our old bed base. The drawer is one from the kitchen of our old house. We kept the drawers when we demolished it a few years ago ( hoarders much?!). I lined the base of it with some Ninja Turtle book cover we had left over.

We all love it. It fits neatly under the wooden tea trolley that he uses to display his 'creations' and there's more than enough room for lego to be added to his collection.

Sorry about the night time photos- it was whisked away and 'labelled' before I could get any today!




Tuesday, 25 February 2014

more on his lego love

As this is blog for the kids in future, I thought I'd document this. As his mother it fascinates me ( and his dad). He spends hours making these 'creations' and every single one is always absolutely symmetrical. It makes me wonder what that means about him as a wee person and the man he'll be in future- a designer perhaps? A builder, draftsman? An artist?

We LOVE lego.






This one was my Valentines present x


Sunday, 18 August 2013

lego love

Well, this stuff isn't actually Lego, it's Banbao- a less expensive and compatible alternative. 

I love afternoons like these. The boy and I have just spent over an hour sitting side by side in front of the fire putting this together, his little hands carefully pushing on the pieces. It was supposed to be a Christmas present but I'm hopeless as I know how much he loves them : )

We use our 'breakfast in bed tray'- it's perfect for keeping track of the teeny weeny blocks.







We got our set from http://www.fishpond.co.nz/ where there's a range of vehicles for $11.97 including postage. The one I bought had 125 pieces.

Banbao is also crazy cheap on http://www.aliexpress.com